Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-01-21
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LAHoAsTKR. JANUARY 81, lss7.
How They Vote,

Mr.. Maloney told what is conceived to
be the truth about Mr.. James McManes in
the Philadelphia councils, sitting in con-
vention TO elect three members OF the board
Of Philadelphia & Erie railroad directors :,
and Immediately after Mr.. Maloney told
Il, Mr.. McManes was elected one Of those
directors, by the solid vote Of the Repuhli.
can members.
1t was very characteristic proceeding
indeed. 1t reminded one very much of the
election the day before, in the legis.
lature of Pennsylvania, Of Mr.. Matthew
Stanley Quay as United States senator,
by the solid Republican vote. Then,
It Is true, there was no exposure of
Mr.. Quay in the convention; but he was
unanimously known to be political bird
OF like feather to Mr.. McManes; one OF
those creatures, the creation of the Repub.
lican political atmosphere, who believe
that they serve the end of their being best
by serving first themselves and their
friends, whom they create into their party
and then the people whom they have
been elected to serve; the people getting
but small share of the feast.
Mr.. McManes is the leading one OF the
Philadelphia forces, and has maintained
his power for many years. He has been
entrenched in the fortress of the gas trust.
which has been the fulcrum of his power.
1t has been SO because of its vast expeadi.
diture. 1t is known that the cost Of the
production of gas has not heen the whole
cost of the gas works to Philadelphia by
very great deal, There has been in the
past, and there is believed to be still, q
large sum reserved from the receipts, in
divers mysterious ways, to conserve the
Republican machine. There is no possible
question of the fact that Philadelphia il
made to pay, through the gas trust, very
large sums of money for the service of the
Republican managers who hold it in sub
lection through their control of these
funds
This is the reason that the Republican
representatives. In councils were solid for
McManes. he is solid for their party and
for them, with incidental protection to
himself. His virtue in their eyes is that
he is not the only beneficiary of the stolen
moneys, the party and themselves being In.
vited to the feast
The operation of the machine is ingenious
and effective. No patent has been applied
Tor, The Invention being an old one, the
mo9feOly of the benefit being secured to
thaparty by the control of the purse.
The gas trust fortifcation once obtained
is held by the judicious use of its cash am.
munition; and the outs have miserable
prospect of gettt
See this gas trita charged in councils
with habitually steahng the cty's MONEYS
by millions. See the evidence produced.
IN the fact that the trustees have steadily
purchased coal at higher than the market
price. See the exposition Of the fact, in
evidence taken by authority OF the coun-
cils, that thegas trustees have permitted the
city to be steadily ilyOver-charged. The neces.
sary deduction is that they have prodted
by 1t, either in money reward or in the per-
petuation OF their power. And then see
this trustee elected by unanimous Re.
publican vote to be director in a railroad
IN which the city owns large interest.
and this, although, as a city director in
another railroad, he submitted without
protest to its discrimination against the
city and against the city's gas trust. Of
which also he was guardian. This ought
to be startling picture. But it is not.
1t is an old story. 1t has not the force of
novelty, and the force of its truth seems
not to suffice to shatter or fracture or even
alarm the men whom it condemns.
AS Mr.. Maloney said, this will not 20 on
forever.